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• America 250 quiz: How much do you know about Trump, TV and the Big Apple?

  03-07-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Put your knowledge to the test with our special 25-question superquiz. Can you get the perfect score?
  
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• A US Independence Day shrouded in vainglory

  03-07-2026 08:32 via smh.com.au
  
  US president has remade Independence Day in his own image
  
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• In Pattaya, sex and life come cheap. But the cost can be deadly

  03-07-2026 05:41 via smh.com.au
  
  It is another realm. In the world’s sex capital – the scene of a shocking crime – a rampant industry funded by anonymous male tourists comes into sharp focus.
  
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• Body of American pilot killed in Indonesian separatist conflict recovered

  03-07-2026 04:18 via smh.com.au
  
  Rebels claim the pilot’s aircraft violated the West Papua Liberation Army’s ban on civilian flights in areas the separatist group considers its operational zones.
  
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• Trump’s America is in a state of cold civil war. But on the nation’s 250th birthday, that’s entirely fitting

  03-07-2026 03:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Throughout its epic history, the United States have been anything but. The republic’s semiquincentennial will be marked not by unity, but by entrenched division.
  
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• Stage falls apart, officials give speeches to no one at Trump’s state fair

  03-07-2026 02:12 via smh.com.au
  
  Meanwhile, Democrats released a report accusing Trump of taking over America’s 250th anniversary celebrations for his own gain and creating a “blueprint for corruption”.
  
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• ‘Broader pattern’: Dozens of arrests in global drug-rape probe in wake of Pelicot case

  03-07-2026 00:34 via smh.com.au
  
  Europol said the operation had led to the arrest of 57 people, the exposure of four groups of conspirators and had identified 158 alleged victims.
  
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